ABSTRACT
Assessment is a crucial adjunct to athletes’ physical preparation to develop speed and agility. Testing serves three primary objectives (Reilly et al., 2009):
profiling the athlete with respect to the identified physiological and neuromuscular determinants of speed and agility performance, either to identify areas requiring development or for the purposes of talent identification;
monitoring training adaptation in each relevant area with reference to the identified needs of the athlete;
critically evaluating the effectiveness of the athlete’s training with respect to achieving the identified goals of the training programme.
